powershell calling cpw - white space in password problem

Wed Oct 11 17:51:27 EDT 2017

The following 2 works fine.

ServerName -l AdminAccount -pw AdminPassword -v  /usr/bin/kadmin -p AdminAccount/admin -w AdminPassword -q 'cpw -pw UserPassword UserAccount'

ServerName -l AdminAccount -pw AdminPassword -v  /usr/bin/kadmin -p AdminAccount/admin -w AdminPassword -q 'cpw -pw "UserPassword" UserAccount'

The following does work.

ServerName -l AdminAccount -pw AdminPassword -v  /usr/bin/kadmin -p AdminAccount/admin -w AdminPassword -q 'cpw -pw "User Password" UserAccount'

-----Original Message-----
From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Ramaiah, Vanna G.
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:37 PM
To: kerberos at mit.edu
Subject: powershell calling cpw - white space in password problem

I have a non-interactive powershell that changes password using cpw. It works fine. When the password contain white space character in it, it fails because it sees white space as delimiter.

The following command works fine. The part -q is in single quotes. If there is a space in UserPassword it fails. How to overcome this problem?

$processStartInfo.Arguments ="" + $server + " -l " + $AdminUserName + " -pw " + $AdminPassword + " -v " +" /usr/bin/kadmin -p " + $AdminUserName + "/admin -w " + $AdminPassword + " -q 'cpw -pw " + $NewUserPassword + " " + $PrincipalName +"'"

$processStartInfo.Arguments = ServerName -l AdminAccount -pw AdminPassword -v  /usr/bin/kadmin -p AdminAccount/admin -w AdminPassword -q 'cpw -pw UserPassword UserAccount'

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